PamlaJJ's Learning Library

I love integrating subjects whenever possible. Pairing literacy and math activities gets all the intellectual juices flowing together. I also love to write poetry for children. If I can make the poem educational as well as fun to read, all the better. Happily, I was able to do all these things in this combined poetry and math activity. The poem introduces the concept of dividing single whole objects - in this case, a pear, a sandwich, and a pizza - into fractional pieces including halves

I love integrating subjects whenever I can. If I an combine language arts with math in one academic exercise, I�ll do it! I also love to write poetry for children. If I can make the poem educational as well as fun to read, all the better. Happily, I was able to do all of these things in this combined poetry and math activity. The concept of recognizing and counting coins is presented in the poem itself. I tried to make the rhythm easy to keep and kids will be quick to point out the rhym

The only thing that could make an elementary school teacher enjoy the summer more would be knowing all those students you pushed, prodded and cajoled into making a full year’s growth are finding time to read, write, and retain the skills you put so much effort into teaching them. You can feel confident this will happen if you make use of the Summer Journal I’ve created. It provides plenty of writing opportunities, encourages students to read, and keeps kids practicing math through out the s

Teaching children how to add requires them to understand the concept of combining objects to create a larger whole and learning how to represent that combination symbolically. Giving students the opportunity to manipulate objects to represent addition equations helps children move from a conceptual to a representative level of understanding. The math menu activities I present here provide students with opportunities to make that leap in a variety of fun ways. Like the offerings at a restauran